Example sentences of "his [noun sg] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry drew breath to deny the slur , and then said nothing after all , seeing in his heart that it was true enough . |
| 2 | By his youth he showed me how late it was , and by his admiration that it was not yet too late . |
| 3 | But eventually , at the Chancery Court in Newcastle , Langbaurgh Council obtained an injunction against his Sunday trading in the borough despite his plea that it was an infringement of his liberty . |
| 4 | His experience of the war changed him — not in his belief that change was necessary but in his optimism that it could be brought about . |
| 5 | Mr. Wall prays in aid that passage in the judgment of Lord Donaldson M.R. in support of his submission that it is only in the event of the court in this country finding that article 13 ( b ) is applicable to the case that it can properly consider the ‘ welfare interests ’ of the child in deciding whether to decline to order the return of the child to Australia . |
| 6 | But Lennie seems to have made up his mind that it 's his midfield which needs strengthening . |
| 7 | Faris is sure that it is lower than 300 picoseconds , although he does not have the equipment to prove his prediction that it is less than 50 picoseconds ( 10 -12 seconds ) . |
| 8 | Clinton , who the opinion polls consistently suggested enjoyed a significant lead , continued his relentless attack on the economic record of the Bush-Reagan years and repeated the underlying message of his campaign that it was time for change . |
| 9 | His opinion that it was grossly indecent was genuine to the extent that his inclination was to think every form of dance indecent . |
| 10 | He hoped , an instant before the impact , that the gambit of the fire was not going to spoil the gambit of the Normans , and saw from a distant glitter far on his right that it was not . |
| 11 | Whilst Kuhn maintains that science does progress in some sense , he is quite unambiguous in his denial that it can be said to progress towards the truth in any well-defined sense . |
| 12 | His conclusion that it was simply an old-fashioned recognition of his comparative youth was to be torpedoed a few minutes later when he heard her addressing his neighbour as Alf . |
| 13 | Where this is not possible the officer dealing could show in his evidence that it was likely that the other party would be harassed , distressed or alarmed . |
| 14 | How can he convince his wife that it 's wrong to spank her boys ? |
| 15 | If you ask me , he 's got some damn notion in his head that it will be hard to rid him of . ’ |
| 16 | William L. Shirer , CBS correspondent in Berlin , noted in his diary that it was another hot weekend in a summer which had had more than its usual share of them . |
| 17 | In the night they had moved , so that now she lay with her arm about his waist , her body pressed so tightly against his back that it would have taken a can-opener to prise them apart . |
| 18 | In 1245 the king accepted his advice that it would be more splendid to have the leopards , which were planned to go beside the throne at Westminster , made of bronze rather than of marble . |
| 19 | Mr Wilson now finds himself declaring his belief that it was ‘ the conduct of Sir Johannes and his cronies ’ which discredited the honours system , not the granting of the original accolade . |
| 20 | His belief that it was fusion was due primarily to the heat , but he also told Bullough that since October there was some evidence in Utah that neutrons were being produced too . |
| 21 | In a series of conversations with the Frenchman Didier Eribon published by Thames and Hudson this month , Sir Ernst Gombrich , former director of the Warburg Institute and one of the most distinguished academics of our time ( yet one of the most accessible because of his belief that it should be possible to explain everything in language that can be understood by a child ) , talks about the development of his ideas , his values and the events which contributed to their formation . |
| 22 | Lovat ended that appeal by emphasising his belief that it was ‘ a most wise & prudent maxim that a man in power should do for those that he is pretty sure will stand & fall with him in all events ’ , and in general that was the major qualification for appointment to the judicial bench in eighteenth-century Scotland . |
| 23 | What is forceful in Spinoza 's approach is his belief that it is mere empty verbiage to recommend conduct to people unless this engages with their real motivations . |
| 24 | There follows a detailed analysis of the important moves , indeed , the important holds , before Gordon reiterates his belief that it is surely one of the finest routes known to man . |
| 25 | Mr Powell , of course , has not been notably shy about declaring his belief that it is black people who are at the root of the decline and fall of the ‘ British way of life ’ . |
| 26 | In the case of Foucault , it derives from his belief that it is through ‘ discourses ’ , ensembles of beliefs , concepts , organising ideas , that our relation to reality is organised . |
| 27 | The solipsist admits no community to ground his belief that it is objectively true that this new sensation is a pain . |
| 28 | If Harbury had heard the story Pascoe had just related , he might have been confirmed in his belief that it was possible . |
| 29 | But as soon as he cursed himself for being taken in last night by Isabel 's distress , two insistent memories shook his belief that it had been an act put on for his benefit : the way she had clung fiercely to his hand when they had passed the dungeons , her grip almost painfully strong , and the stricken expression on her face when he had ordered her to strip . |
| 30 | He reiterated his belief that it was necessary for Czechoslovakia " to remain a common state for both nations " and for the " rapid and extensive transformation of our economy " to be continued . |